Terry Flood Poet Lyric

Notes About The Poem

Reworked my original lyric

then had a running battle with the robots

that insisted 'Heartwarming' was pronounced 'Heartwerming' and ' Vive la difference'

was pronounced 'Vive L.A. Difference'.

Through much perseverance, the human (ie... me) beat the bots.

And the mp3 is the result

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This Is A Song - 2025

This is a song for a man or a boy
It’s a song for a woman or girl
This is a song for the straight and the gay
It’s a song for the whole of the world

This is a song for the cheerful, the fearful
and those who must stand up and fight
This is a song for the brave and the bold
and for those who are forced to take flight

Tyrannical despots
marauding invaders
Who see no wrong in what they’ve done
For those who would seek
To be conquering raiders
There’s no song… SO YOU CAN DO ONE!

The justice of peace
shall embolden our hearts
And we’ll face down your missiles and bombs
The angels for you
have no tune in their harps
So you'll just have to sing your own songs

This is a song for the black and the white
It’s a song for all shades in between
This is a song for the whole human race
And for you if you land and you're green

This is a song for the rich and the poor
Notwithstanding your hue or your tongue
This is a song for the peaceful at war
It’s a song for the old and the young

But this is a song to be sung with a smile on your face
A song to be sung anytime… to be sung anyplace
Where ‘Vive la difference’ puts the ‘human’ in the human race
And this song sings best when it’s sung with a smile on your face

Tyrannical despots
marauding invaders
Who see no wrong in what they’ve done
For those who would seek
to be conquering raiders
There’s no song… SO YOU CAN DO ONE!

The justice of peace
shall embolden our hearts
And we’ll face down your missiles and bombs
The angels for you
have no tune in their harps
SO, YOU’LL JUST HAVE TO SING YOUR OWN SONGS!

So, should you go forth with the dark in your heart
And your frown shows your mood to be black
Just sing for a while with a heartwarming smile
And you may find the world smiling back

For, this is a song to be sung with a smile on your face
A song to be sung anytime… to be sung anyplace
Where ‘Vive la difference’ puts the ‘human’ in the human race
And this song sings best when it’s sung with a smile on your face

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Deb M September 16, 2025 at 3:55 AM Upbeat and uplifting happy positive song/poem….you are a professional already with the music! Brilliant Terry! Debx Terry Flood September 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM Glad you enjoyed this, Deb. I’m chuffed with how it finally came out. A.I. had some weird ideas about pronunciation, but I got there in the end. I would love to have the know how to really make these songs top dollar… but then, better than that, would be to be an actual musician… alas… I would struggle to get a note out of a triangle… ho hum!

David Crandall September 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM wonderful, upbeat song! Terry Flood September 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM Thanks, David. I’ve been surprised to discover just how much influence we can have over the ‘tune’ that AI creates.’Constructive’ spelling, punctuation etc can truly influence the output. Clearly, that doesn’t make one a musician… but it doesn’t leave one stood to one side while the bots do their thing, either. Glad you enjoyed, David. Terry

Gershon Wolf August 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM Now THIS IS A SONG, TERRY! It is screaming FAVE FAVE FAVE at me. Thank you for posting it. It's going to hang on the wall next to where I 'work.' Many blessings, Gershon Terry Flood September 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM Thank you, GW. Considering this was written as a song…. Getting this final result was a battle of wits…. But (in all modesty) I’m well chuffed with the result. Cheers for the fave… truly appreciated

sara Etgen-Baker August 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM upbeat and cherry poem/lyrics...glad you developed a positive relationship with AI :-) nicely done Terry Flood September 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM I’m gonna run out of ‘song worthy’ poems soon, Sara, so I hope to get my poetic mojo back post haste. Glad you enjoyed

Ilene Bauer August 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM wow! such an upbeat and hopeful song, terry - i'm not used to hearing that lately! glad you won your battle with the bots - i enjoyed this very much... Terry Flood August 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM Not a new song, Ilene. Wrote it a while ago and, strangely, one of a very few poems that I wrote as a song. But it fought me all the way…. Others that I have posted here, took little more than a tweak here and there… but, I knew there was a song in this and I’m happy with the result, even if I never plucked a string or beat the hell out of a drum kit. Glad you enjoyed the resultant ‘output’ ;-) Terry

Lin Lane August 28, 2025 at 8:13 AM SCORE ONE FOR HUMANITY! Nice perseverance, Terry. Although you used AI for the tune and voice, you showed it who was boss, and I listened with a smile on my face. Terry Flood August 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM I’m gradually learning that AI needs a little cajoling. It has its own ideas, and speaks English as a second language. How the hell people get it to write poetry is beyond me. Glad you enjoyed the results of my feud with the bots, Lin. Terry